The plantain taro although contains "plantain" two words, but no relationship with plantain, actually "plantain taro", in folklore and plantain root, ginger root, ginger taro, taro, powder taro, ginger gorgonzola and other aliases, is a kind of family homonymous plantain plantain family Plantago ovata economic plant, mainly distributed in my aboveground stems of the use. Banana taro stems on the ground in the Rowan old home called "banana root culm", its use and leaves, can be cut as grass to feed pigs and cattle, but because the banana root culm is relatively thick, so we must first use a sickle to divide into sections and then cut, so easy for livestock to chew.

Rural fields planted plantain taro in addition to feeding pigs, there are 1, medicinal, plantain taro has heat detoxification, drainage and other effects. 2, starch, plantain taro bonding high, good finish, you can make starch. 3, cool powder, plantain taro coolness, can be made into a cool powder consumption. Banana taro is also called banana root, like high temperature and humidity, drought, wind, cold resistance is relatively strong, can withstand short-term frost, in the temperature of 10 ℃ some can still grow slowly, the root system is well developed, into the soil depth of 100 cm or so, able to absorb the soil deep water, pests and diseases banana taro fans, very tasty. Plantain taro vermicelli practice is also very simple, the plantain taro dug back and washed, after grinding them all, and then use a strainer to grind the slag plus water filtration, filter the slag are filtered out, and then leave it for a day or two, such as starch precipitation, precipitation.

It is that there are species that can be seen in the roadside green belt, there is also the park inside. We here called plantain I do not know if it is a variety of different call, and the planting less we here also do not feed pigs with plantain taro. But a few years ago to go to the South Dry Lotus root powder production season generally we choose between November and January, because this time of the year autumn high, easy to dry, first wash, and then broken with a machine to make starch, and then steamed into a piece of powder with a steamer, and put on the bamboo props to dry. Moreover, plantain taro is a perennial herb, which is managed roughly, and once planted, it can be harvested for many years in a row. Of course, the planting site needs to be free of water and sunny for the tubers to overwinter successfully. Plantain taro stems for upright stout type, up to 3 meters high, leaves alternate.